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After re-reading I can see how you'd think she was talking about an LE song, but I'm thinking it will be a song from most likely an 90s album or early 2000s. I'm thinking Pancake or Juarez (crosses fingers).

I'd like having Reindeer King played more rarely or in some special part inside the show, in its very own, dramatic place during the set. It deserves it. The show opener is important, and during the last years we had some great ones: Give, Shattering Sea, Parasol (unexpected! yet fitting the theme of the album). But then it becomes just less exciting, you don't look anymore for a particular performance when downloading the boots and finally during a show it's just a warm up (if you need one before tori show, for me it's always so surreal I need some time to understand where the hell I am sitting). Simply, I wouldn't like Reindeer King to be overplayed. But if that is the opener tomorrow, I'm still on board!

As I said in the other thread, I'm keeping my fingers crossed for Pancake.

At this point, after such a prolific tour as UG, she's probably going to step up her game to surprise us - just as she did with this amazing synth intro Mother Revolution a few days ago in London.

''So, sometimes it is forest and trees," she says, "and you see hundreds of songs staring you down and you're just thinking, ok, we need a range – for a first show, of the 'powerhouses' we're having one [she laughs] and then you get a real rustle among them and some of the songs would say to me fine, that's ok, not the first show because you might fall off your stool. So, you get a sense of who wants to come and sometimes it is a choice – you go, "eeny, meeny, miny, moe" and you try it out and if it's going well on that rehearsal day then it's in. If, for some reason, it's not going well you just say "another day" and move on. Some people may find this ruthless but I only had a week's rehearsal with everybody. The first two days are set-up to kind of figure out the show so that's where it is. I think what we're starting with [for this tour] is good because it's not too recent - for sure, it isn't at all – but it's also not just the Little Earthquakes go-to. Because people always ask me for songs from that record for every show but I'm trying to mix it up a bit more."

Originally Posted by underwater-thing

That reads almost like a Little Earthquakes song is going to be the opener?

Originally Posted by toriMODE

After re-reading I can see how you'd think she was talking about an LE song, but I'm thinking it will be a song from most likely an 90s album or early 2000s. I'm thinking Pancake or Juarez (crosses fingers).

She's not talking about the opening song in this quote. She's talking about the initial pool of songs that start the tour. She's mentioned in the past that she has lists of A songs (regular, recurring songs like the opener and closer, I think she's referred to them as pillars before), B songs (songs that are interchangeable and come out less often), C songs (these are "maybe" songs that get worked on as the tour progresses and moved up the list if they go well), and so on. She can't rehearse hundreds of songs at one time so she starts with a small group first. It's why we see the sets get more varied as the tour progresses.

"If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days."